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Planning Cooperative Learning Lessons "Getting Started"
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I don't think it's different at
all. I think that when I would prepare for a traditional
lecture, I would go through and say, "I'm going to write
this on the board," and I would just start writing, and
that's what would be written on the board. When I prepare
for a cooperative type environment, I'll say, "This is all
that I want to do. I'm going to cover this. This is what I'm
going to write on the board, and then I'm going to have the
students work on this part of it.” So I don't see how I
mentally prepare or physically prepare for this being
different. The only thing I have to do differently is that I
lose the timing element that I would have in a traditional
straight lecture format. I know I can cover three pages of
notes in a traditional lecture, or whatever the number is,
or this number of slides, if I'm doing PowerPoint. When I do
a collaborative type of environment, I put in the exercises,
and I have yet to come up with, even after repeated times, a
way of saying, "Okay, I know this will only take ten
minutes.” Now, I have gone to the mode where I tell
students, "You don't have to get to the answer. I mean, the
answer isn't the most important part. It's the process that
you're going through that's the most important.” And, to
help that out, so that they feel more comfortable, I find
myself giving them, not necessarily the answer, but going
through the process really quickly afterward, so that if
they didn't go through it all, they at least have a way of
being able to reflect back upon it.
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